WQXR: The Knights at Naumburg, July 2016

July 12, 2016

From WQXR: “On Tuesday, July 12, WQXR's Elliott Forrest hosted a live broadcast of The Knights from the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park. This eclectic program included symphonies by Haydn (No. 64) and Schubert (No. 5), Gabriel Kahane's Crane Palimpsest (featuring the composer as vocalist) and arrangements of Bob Dylan and Bob Haggart. 

The theme that brings this concert together is the experience of time. As stated in the program notes: "Perhaps one of music’s greatest powers is the way it allows us to experience time: lulling us with repetitive phrases; setting up expectations and then either fulfilling them or taking us in unexpected directions; expanding time with cosmic stillness; making our heart race as we sense things coming to a climax, or trailing off in unfulfilled longing."

Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809): Symphony No. 64 in A Major, “Tempora Mutantor”
Gabriel Kahane (b. 1981): Crane Palimpsest
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, D.485
Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc: The Big Noise from Winnetka (arr. The Knights) 
Bob Dylan arr. The Knights: The Times They Are A-Changin

Photo by Zac Nicholson